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Track From Scratch - Re-Orchestrating The Force Theme from Star Wars (Ep01)

In today's Composing From Scratch video: I try to orchestrate "The Force Theme" from Star Wars in as many ways as possible. Watch Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/22019259 -------------------- 🎼 PROJECT FILES: https://www.patreon.com/alexmoukala?ty=h ⏫ PRIVATE LESSONS: Coming soon... 📚 COMPOSING COURSES: http://goo.gl/HJPXqg -------------------- 🎧 MY MUSIC: http://youtube.com/alexmoukalamusic 💬 COMPOSERS COMMUNITY: https://discordapp.com/invite/tZ275cj 🗣️ GET IN TOUCH: https://www.facebook.com/AlexMoukalaMusic 📷 BEHIND THE SCENES: http://instagram.com/alex_moukala/ 🐦 TWITTER: http://twitter.com/alex_moukala -------------------- 🎻 LIBRARIES & SOFTWARE: (For each module, the libraries are sorted based on how much I like them). - STRINGS: Metropolis Ark 1 & 3, Nucleus, Cinematic Studio Strings, Fluid Shorts, Cinematic Strings 2, Jaeger - BRASS: Metropolis Ark 1 & 3, JXL Brass, Nucleus, Twelve Horn Ensemble, CineBrass CORE, Century Brass, Jaeger, Angry Brass - CHOIR: Oceania, Metropolis Ark 1, Stormchoir 2 - WOODWINDS: CineWinds CORE, Nucleus, Metropolis Ark 1 & 3 - HYBRID PERCS & LOOPS: Damage, PercX, Decimator Drums, Cerberus - BIG CINEMATIC PERCS: Los Angeles Modern Percussion, New Epic Toms Ensemble, New Epic Dhol Ensemble, CinePerc - ORCHESTRAL PERCS: CinePerc, Rhapsody Orchestral Percussion, Kontakt Factory Library - PIANO: The Giant, Woodchester Piano, Spitfire LABS Soft Piano - HARPS & OTHERS: CineHarp, Kontakt Factory Library - SYNTHS: Juggernaut, Serum, Harmor, Jaeger, Evolution Atlantica, - ORCHESTRAL SFX: Metropolis Ark 3, Palette Orchestral FX - SOLO STRINGS: Tina Guo Solo Cello, Solos of the Sea, Cinematic Studio Strings Solo - SOLO VOCALS: Jaeger, Vocalisa - GUITARS: Basic Live Guitars & Bass routed into Waves GTR / Guitar Rig, Metropolis Ark 1, Heavyocity Atlantica - TRAILER SFX: Custom / Private Samples, AVA Instinct, Cinematic Trailers Designed, Epic Sound Effects Quantum, Scenes From The Multiverse Vol.1, Juggernaut, Jaeger, Evolution Atlantica, AizerX Classic Trailers Toolkit, AizerX Trailer SFX Tools - REVERB: ValhallaRoom, ValhallaShimmer - MIXING & MASTERING: iZotope Ozone 9 Advanced, iZotope Neutron, FabFilter Pro-Q3, FL Studio Plugins - DAW: FL Studio 20 -------------------- 💻 HARDWARE & PC SPECS: - Desktop PC: 3.7 GHz Intel Core i7 8700k / 32GB DDR4 RAM / 2TB Samsung Evo860 M.2 SSD - Laptop PC: Asus ROG GLW752 (2.6GHz Intel Core i7-6700HQ / 16GB DDR4 RAM / 1TB Samsung Evo860 M.2 SSD) - Audio Interface: M-Audio M-Track Plus - MIDI Keyboard: M-Audio Keystation 49 MkIII Artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/andyfairhurst/gallery/ Original Song: "The Force Theme" composed by John Williams

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Cyberwave

After setting up my template and trying to compose a bit, my appreciation for your skills went from high to extreme haha It's damn hard at first, but fun! I see here that you are writing everything in one single pattern and use the playlist just to add some audio clips and automation if necessary. It's the only way to make use of the ghost notes which are extremely helpful to me. Making separate tracks in playlist for each instrument would be nice visually but then I'd have to write only one instrument per pattern which would be kind of confusing I guess, and no ghost notes feature. I've been trying to understand your workflow better but through your vids you had several approaches and I'm interested in knowing which one you prefer these days?

alexmoukala

Hey! My workflow goes in phases I'd say. 1) When I'm just sketching the main idea / outline of the track, I work in one single pattern to use the ghost notes as you said. 2) Once I want to orchestrate it better and add details to the sketch, I will usually use the split by channel function and regroup the patterns either by instrument family (strings pattern, brass pattern...), or I do that by single instrument (1st Violins, Cello, French Horns, Bass Trombone...). This makes it easy for me to narrow down my focus on those specific instruments or groups when I'm adding details to those.

Cyberwave

Makes perfect sense, thank you. Also I'd like to experiment a bit with controlling dynamics by automation inside playlist in oppose to using the one under the piano roll. It could sound more artificial but less frustrating for sure! I believe that Image Line should give more attention to 'edit events in piano roll' option in the future updates

alexmoukala

I tried that for a few songs but always reverted to using the events controller. I wish it was done better too though

Anonymous

Hello Alex first of all this is just great and I hope to learn a lot from your tutorials, I wanted to ask please, I see that you have in your templates channels such as "Basses ARK #1", or "Violas ARK #1", but as far as I know ARK 1 doesn't have strings sections, just high/low strings. I'm guessing you divide those low/high into artificial sections by settings limit on notes? Or something else? Thank you very much in advance, Omer

alexmoukala

Hey there Omer, this is just for my own organization, in truth Bass and Cello are the "Low Strings" patches. Violas and Violins are the "High Strings" patches. I just treat them as those instruments, so for example, on the Cello channel I will write only in a specific range (C4 to above), and in the basses I'll mainly stick to octave 3 for example. I also mix them a bit differently, but yeah in the end they're the same patch really